(CNSNews.com) - The Ohio Republican Party officially filed challenges Friday to approximately 35,000 registrants in 65 counties where voter fraud is believed to have taken place.

The state's Republican Party is pre-challenging these registrants' right to vote in the 2004 presidential election because mail to the new registrants was returned as undeliverable by U.S. Postal Service authorities.

"Our goal in filing these pre-election challenges is to protect the integrity of Ohio's electoral process," said Bob Bennett, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party. "We want to ensure that voters are not disenfranchised by fraud in this election. This is an effort to clarify questionable registrations in advance so they don't become an issue on Election Day."

Earlier in the week, Bennett was joined by Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie at a news conference where he showed thousands of pieces of undeliverable mail to newly registered voters. Concern was raised when the rate of return was at an unprecedented higher rate than in the past.

At the previous news conference, Bennett cited that the normal rate of return on new registrations in less than 1 percent. However, this year the rate of return has ranged from 2 percent to 11 percent in Ohio counties.

Bennett also called on the Democratic Party to help in ensuring a fair and honest election this November, instead of making outrageous claims that the Republican Party is trying to suppress voters.

I have my view, and my view is my view. I can't tell you in 20 years or whenever, if someone made a persuasive argument, the world changes. ... So I don't predict the future. What I tell you is that my position is what it is." --John Kerry

I am listening to John Bachelor on WMAL radio and he just had someone on who seemed fairly reasonable ...didn't catch his name. They were talking about the electoral college and he said he thought Bush knew he was losing in Ohio because of the economy.

I have my view, and my view is my view. I can't tell you in 20 years or whenever, if someone made a persuasive argument, the world changes. ... So I don't predict the future. What I tell you is that my position is what it is." --John Kerry

Or trying to spin. I live in Ohio and one explanation being given for the new added voters causing an area's population to be greater than the census states, is that people are kept on the voter rolls long after they move. In other words, it's just an accounting artifact. There REALLY is NO fraud going on!

It's hard to argue that systematic, massive election fraud is an aberration. How about JAIL TIME for the leftist bums? Flip the slobs doing the dirty work to get the engineers of this grave threat to our democracy. As Peggy Noonan said the other day, election fraud is treason.

You nailed it!! I could never understand why he tried to get along with the demokooks in Washington, guess he had better luck in Texas. If you take a cold snake into your bosom it will soon warm up and bite as you said.

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posted on 10/22/2004 6:52:00 PM PDT
by westmichman
(Pray for global warming. Yeah, I live in Michigan)

You'd think that requiring identification to vote would be a no-brainer. At least Florida requires photo ID, unless you don't have it, then you have to sign an affidavit. And absentee ballots should be notarized.

sign an affidavit?!? polling stations are relatively close to where you live...GO HOME AND GET IT! how do people get to polling stations? drive? without your license? I know I don't leave the house without my wallet/license...you can get in alot of trouble if you get pulled over and don't have your license with you. rant off

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posted on 10/22/2004 7:02:56 PM PDT
by KB4W
(I have a plan, and that plan is to have a plan for the plan that I will tell you after I take a poll)

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